Eva Longoria, left, looks at her husband Jose Baston while standing atop her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame following a ceremony on Monday, April 16, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)(Photo11: Willy Sanjuan, Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

This is the first child for Longoria, 43, who grew up in Corpus Christi's Westside and attended Texas A&M University-Kingsville before moving to California.

Bastón, who is president of Latin American media company Televisa, has three children from a previous marriage.

On Thursday, the "Overboard" actress posted on her Instagram announcing her son's birth, but also chimed in regarding the zero tolerance police, which separated immigrant children from their parents on the U.S.-Mexico border.

"In light of my son's birth, I wanted to bring focus on the families that have been separated at the border," she said. "Having my son next to me, I cannot imagine him being taken from my arms ...

"I still feel like a little girl from Corpus Christi, Texas, who had a really big dream," Longoria said in March. "As a woman and as a Latina, I represent a lot of communities ... and I just want to tell all those communities that this isn't my star, it is our star."